Over the course of the last two decades, Xiu Xiu’s prolific and influential output of acclaimed albums and collaborations has been consistently dazzling. They’ve released 17 full-length LPs that have been praised in outlets such as The New Yorker, The Wire, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Quietus and many others. They have toured the globe relentlessly, performing in places as far off the beaten path as Kazakhstan and Lebanon and places institutionally vital as the Guggenheim and Centre Pompidou.

Xiu Xiu shared a dual single release for the songs “Arp Omni,” a swelling, textural string-filled ballad, and the jolting, maximalist, industrial prog-pop banger “Veneficium.” Both songs appear on the new album 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips, due for release September 27th via Polyvinyl.

On 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips, Angela Seo, David Kendrick and Jamie Stewart deliver some of the band’s most compelling and mesmerising music to date. Mixed by John Congleton (Chelsea Wolfe, Lana Del Rey) this album is unlike anything the band has ever recorded previously and was motivated by the destruction of previous aesthetic notions, as well as the band’s recent move from Los Angeles to Berlin.

According to Xiu Xiu, “Arp Omni” is “A little sweetie ballad about falling for a person who takes risks in life,” while “Veneficium” is about “Being lost; literally lost, emotionally lost, lost in a smashed psychological dimension beyond your control, being overwhelmed by the weight of one’s insignificance in the face of time, space and death, and pointlessly railing against what does not notice let alone care about you.” This Is Pop? today’s song of the day is here for you.